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Black Lives Matter Leader: ‘If This Country Doesn't Give Us What We Want, Then We Will Burn Down This System'
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Obama & Biden DIRECTLY Ordered Sham Flynn Probe Revealed In DOJ Released Strzok Notes
[Blabber Buzz] Newly released notes of FBI agent Peter Strzok regarding Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn implicate former President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in the FBI investigation against the former White House National Security Adviser.

The Department of Justice on Wednesday released Strzok’s handwritten notes from January 4th, 2017, the day before the infamous closed-door Oval Office meeting between Obama, Biden, ex-FBI Director James Comey, ex-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and former CIA Director John Brennan coordinating the FBI investigation into Flynn.

Strzok’s handwritten notes reveal that Biden himself invoked the Logan Act as the basis for going after Flynn.

They also show that Obama himself directly ordered the targeting of

Flynn, telling Comey: "Have the right people on the case."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Will 0Bama's corruption ever be revelaed by the MSM?

He loved to say i but will "the one" become the square root of minus one?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/25/2020 2:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Zero's biography was always imaginary.
Posted by: Ebberens Glimp4613 || 06/25/2020 2:45 Comments || Top||


#4  So, as has been said at Rantburg in the past, the cabal was directed from the top. After all, Harry Truman (Dem) said "The buck stops here." Will anything be done...it should be but it is doubtful.

Obummble has done more to tear down his monument to himself (legacy) than anyone else could ever do.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/25/2020 10:47 Comments || Top||

#5  One of many harebrained schemes concocted by the Affirmative Action president.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/25/2020 11:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Nixon's tapes cost him his presidency. Comey et. al.'s memos aren't going to cost Bath House anything significant.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/25/2020 11:34 Comments || Top||


Sealed depositions involving Jeffrey Epstein name Ehud Barak as offender
Boy, he hooked some big fish. Followup to yesterday's story on the Dershowitz evidence
[Jpost] The sealed depositions were obtained by the outspoken Harvard professor in connection to a separate 2019 civil defamation lawsuit, filed by the same plaintiff Virginia Giuffre.

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak responded to a report filed by the Miami Herald, claiming that he was mentioned in sealed court documents which alleged that he was sexually involved with a minor in relation to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

"Barak's name was inserted into the article in order to push aside the allegations against Dershowitz," Barak said in a statement, according to N12. "In Dershowitz's paper it's stated that the women's testimony is false. Barak does not comment on imaginary rumors or false affidavits. Moreover, neither did Barak know nor did he meet Epstein in 2002, when the women supposedly left the US for Australia."

Sealed depositions from a 2016 defamation suit filed by Virginia Giuffre, one of the purported victims of Epstein's sex trafficking ring, against Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate and alleged madam of Jeffrey Epstein, were obtained by the legal team of lawyer Alan Dershowitz. And, according to the Herald, Barak was named within the confidential documents as one of the people the plaintiff was trafficked to and forced to have sex with.

The sealed depositions were obtained by the outspoken Harvard professor in connection to a separate 2019 civil defamation lawsuit filed by the same plaintiff, who alleges she was forced to have sex with Dershowitz while working as a locker room attendant at US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. Dershowitz in response countersued for defamation.

Giuffre's lawyers were attempting to keep the documents sealed, according to the Herald report, because they were worried that Dershowitz might twist the information to use in his favor. However, his lawyer Howard Cooper admitted in court Tuesday that they procured some of the confidential affidavits, where Giuffre named Barak as one of her offenders.

Epstein, a wealthy 66-year-old money manager who once counted
Bill Gates
Trump, former President Bill Clinton and Britain's Prince Andrew as friends, was arrested in July of last year and pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking charges involving women and girls as young as 14 from 2002 to 2005 throughout Manhattan and Florida.

He died August 10, two days after signing his will, by apparently hanging himself in his cell. Days later, a federal judge dismissed the case.

Many of Epstein's alleged victims, like Giuffre, are still attempting to obtain compensation for the sexual abuse they claim to have endured at the hands of the late financier, and those allegedly in connection with him. Giuffre recently appeared on the Netflix series Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, amid her legal battles with Dershowitz and Maxwell, where she candidly detailed her association with Epstein. She vehemently named Prince Andrew as one of her offenders in the series.
Posted by: Frank G || 06/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Too bad this didn't come out before the elections.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/25/2020 3:36 Comments || Top||


#3  #1 Timing is everything. Is the Israeli Labor Party similar to the Democrat Party in the U.S.?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/25/2020 10:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Too bad this didn't come out before the elections.

It came out before the fourth one... or will it be the fifth?
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/25/2020 11:06 Comments || Top||

#5  ^IV, and as a rumor
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/25/2020 11:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Sorry, I meant the next election. Only each time Bibi and Likud are doing better, which makes it the whole thing a bit silly.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/25/2020 18:24 Comments || Top||

#7  @ #3 - Nothing could be similar to the US Democratic Party! /sarc
Posted by: Clem || 06/25/2020 20:19 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Michigan drops lawsuit against barber who reopened in defiance of Whitmer’s coronavirus lockdown
[FoxNews] The state of Michigan has agreed to drop the lawsuit against a barber who stood in defiance of Gov.
Gretchen Whitmer

...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender...
’s coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
lockdown and refused to close his shop.

Karl Manke, a 77-year-old who has operated his shop in Owosso for 60 years, was granted a full and final dismissal of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ lawsuit seeking to shut him down, according to court documents obtained by FOX66 Flint.

"I am glad the state has finally realized I am not a health threat to anyone and that I have a right to continue to cut hair," Manke said in a statement issued by his attorney, David A. Kallman, according to MLive.com. "The courts have consistently upheld my constitutional rights affirming that the governor’s attempts to shut me down were out of line."

Since reopening his shop May 4, Manke was issued at least two citations and charged with a misdemeanor and had his license suspended.

But the 77-year-old stood his ground during the month-long legal battle against the state, which claimed he was a danger to public health for operating his shop during the COVID-19 shutdown, and even continued to cut hair.

Manke scored a victory earlier this month after the Michigan Supreme Court unanimously sided with him, ruling that the state appeals court didn’t follow proper procedure to make its decision.

A pending appeal in the Michigan Court of Appeals will also be dropped as a result of the agreement, according to local reports.

Manke also had his license reinstated last week when Michigan allowed barbershops and salons to reopen statewide. Whitmer’s executive order had shut those businesses down since March 17.

However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
Kallman said Manke is still facing misdemeanor criminal charges filed by the Shiawassee County Prosecutor’s Office, according to the outlet. He also said the barber will contest a still-pending formal complaint the state filed against him at a hearing on July 15.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Poor Gretchen. She could have been the Dem VP candidate, but she succumbed to her Inner Karen and went all tyrantical with the executive orders.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/25/2020 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  The process is the punishment.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/25/2020 5:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Yep'per, a real hardened criminal Mr. Manke is. And that Shiawassee County....sure are tough on "crime", aren't they?
Posted by: Clem || 06/25/2020 5:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't seem to find any info on a single barbershop closed on our military installations.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/25/2020 6:27 Comments || Top||

#5  They're guessing anything related to the lockdown mistake wouldn't get past a jury?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/25/2020 6:30 Comments || Top||

#6  @ #4 - That's AAFES exercising its muscle.
Posted by: Clem || 06/25/2020 8:12 Comments || Top||

#7  In the face of all the protests, rioting, burning and looting, dropping the lawsuit against the barber was the sane and right thing to do.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/25/2020 10:14 Comments || Top||

#8  John, the sane and right thing to do was to never file the lawsuit in the first place. As BP said, the process is the punishment.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/25/2020 11:01 Comments || Top||

#9  Agreed Rambler.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/25/2020 11:31 Comments || Top||

#10  that was the Soros-installed AG, Dana Nessel
Posted by: Frank G || 06/25/2020 11:54 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Project Veritas #ExposeFacebook: Hidden Cameras Show Facebook Contractors Bragging About Removing Pro-Trump Content From Platform

[PJMedia] James O’Keefe has an insider at Facebook, Zach McElroy, who says he’s prepared to testify that Cognizant contractors employed by Facebook are actively trying to sway the 2020 election through deletion of pro-Trump sentiment all over the platform. McElroy wrote an oped on Medium in advance of the video release.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 06/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lara:
Posted by: 3dc || 06/25/2020 1:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Wikipedia on Cognizant
Posted by: 3dc || 06/25/2020 1:33 Comments || Top||

#3  H-1B visa violations

Cognizant leads the ranks of companies receiving H-1B visas from the United States. The company has been steadily increasing its U.S. work force. In January 2011, the company announced plans to expand its U.S. delivery centers, including a new 1,000-person (0.4% of worldwide workforce) facility in Phoenix, Arizona.[126] In February 2011, Cognizant said it had 60 full-time recruiters actively hiring in the U.S.[127]

In 2009, an investigation by the US Department of Labor (DoL) found Cognizant in violation of the H-1B provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Administrative Act. 67 of its workers underpaid due to unintentional administrative errors, according to Cognizant. The DoL investigation revealed that Cognizant had achieved 99.7% compliance in its management of H-1B visa-related issues.[128] The company paid US$509,607 in back wages to the 67 employees. No fines or visa restrictions were imposed, since DoL did not discover any willful violations. Joseph Petrecca, the director of the Wage and Hour Division's Northern New Jersey District Office, praised the company for taking immediate steps to correct the violations: "This level of cooperation sets a standard for others in the industry."[129]

In 2016, the company was the subject of a lawsuit by workers for Walt Disney World who said workers from India were brought into the United States on H-1B visas in order to replace them.[130] However, in October 2016, federal Judge Gregory A. Presnel of the United States District Court in Orlando dismissed the lawsuits, stating "none of the allegedly false statements put at issue in the complaint are adequate."[131]
Posted by: 3dc || 06/25/2020 1:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Cognizant leads the ranks of companies receiving H-1B visas from the United States.

Displacing Americans is big business.
Number of employees: 291,700 (2020)
Revenue: US$16.8 billion (2019)
Posted by: Ebberens Glimp4613 || 06/25/2020 2:38 Comments || Top||

#5  That comes out to $57,600 revenue per employee. You can hire a grocery store cashier for that kind of money once benefits and taxes are included. Yet supposedly, these H1B visa high tech workers are being paid "competitive" wages.
Posted by: Ebberens Glimp4613 || 06/25/2020 2:44 Comments || Top||

#6  How will Cognizant handle suddenly being cut off from H-1B staffers — or at least additional staffers, I’m not sure how to understand President Trump’s executive order — through the end of the year?
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/25/2020 2:49 Comments || Top||

#7  I have worked with a tech team that was 100% American citizens before H1B1 people became popular. Creativity was through the roof. Also, it was a fun, company loyal team to work with also.

When companies started using H1B1 people, there were very good tech people coming in but they had to be told exactly what to do, there was no creativity, but that benefit was offset by lower pay per corporate.

One evening I was working very, very late and after midnight I noticed computers coming coming back to life by themselves, then cursors moving around on the screens. The H1B1 foreigners had given back door access to the systems to people back in their countries were going behind the fire walls at night and downloading the new code written the previous day.

THAT is how H1B1 workers were making up for the lower pay, they were selling access to their daily work to people and entities back home.
Posted by: Crins Throlusing3119 || 06/25/2020 3:11 Comments || Top||

#8  >there were very good tech people coming in but they had to be told exactly what to do

an oxymoron if you ask me...

If you cannot understand the problem yourself, you will never produce a useful, let alone optimal solution.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/25/2020 6:22 Comments || Top||

#9  With Americans put out of work by the Donk governors, they've handed Trump the lock on H1Bs. Hello Big Tech. As they say in NYC, its nothing personal, its business.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/25/2020 6:31 Comments || Top||

#10  Isn't H1Bs censoring the pre-election political discourse in the US a clear case of foreign meddling?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 06/25/2020 7:15 Comments || Top||

#11  Cancelling and censoring free speech expression? No surprise, that what fascists practicing tyranny over others do.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/25/2020 10:18 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Flashback: VA Hospitals Under Obama Used Term ‘Kung Flu'
[TammyBruce] Two federally-run Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals during the Obama administration used the term "Kung Flu" in official materials, along with imagery of a monkey in a karate suit and a ninja wearing a flu mask, Fox News has learned.
A raaaaaacist two-fer, no less...:




Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And a monkey, no less.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 06/25/2020 17:46 Comments || Top||


Biden Adds Congressional Black Caucus's Karen Bass to VP List
[TheHornNews] Representative Karen Bass, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, is being vetted by Joe Biden’s vice presidential search team, a person familiar with the process said.

The Lovely Ms. Bass:


She has a bit of a past.But now I'm a Dementiaphobe, a Racist and Atoning for educability through delicate beauty.

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A Dem VP candidate named Karen. That's priceless, given the current "Karen" memes. I don't know who is writing the script for 2020, but I wish they'd stop.

a bit of a past link
Posted by: SteveS || 06/25/2020 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Thank you for covering that, SteveS. I think I’ve got it fixed in the article now..
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/25/2020 1:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Bottom fishing for a Bass - how poetic.
Posted by: Raj || 06/25/2020 1:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Optics, not deeds.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/25/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||

#5  That's a fine choice.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/25/2020 10:59 Comments || Top||


Establishment Dem beaten by Far Left Dem in Primary in NY 16th
[Independent] Jamaal Bowman,
...”Democratic Socialist”, AOC fanboi, former principal and founder of an academy whose students consistently performed in the bottom 20% of New York state...
a progressive political outsider who appears set to defeat longtime incumbent Rep Eliot Engel in New York’s congressional primaries, has delivered a fiery speech targeting Donald Trump and vowing to fight against corporate interests.

Mr Bowman, who ran against Mr Engel, 73, in New York’s 16th congressional district, did not declare victory over his opponent. But the 44-year-old middle school principal from the Bronx celebrated what he called a "movement" and told supporters: "I can’t wait to get to Congress and cause problems."

"Eliot Engel ― and I’ll say his name once ― used to say that he was a thorn in the side of Donald Trump. But you know what Donald Trump is more afraid of than anything else? A black man with power," the Democratic candidate said as votes continued to be counted on Tuesday night..

Engel, who was first elected in 1988, said he had "earned a reputation as an effective Member of Congress who knows how to get results."[6] He received endorsements from former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and the Congressional Black Caucus. He emphasized his record in Congress and said that Bowman had "little history of involvement in our community and is not a real Democrat.
From Bowman's campaign site
Bowman received a master's degree in counselor education from Mercy College and an Ed.D. in organizational leadership from Manhattanville College.
Posted by: lord garth || 06/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'Organizational leadership'. Let me guess - it's the new name for community organizer / professional agitator?
Posted by: Raj || 06/25/2020 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  The older term is Commissar.
Posted by: Ebberens Glimp4613 || 06/25/2020 2:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Trump was the president that replaced Black man with power 0bama.

0bama tried to over-turn the election by underhand means! The black man with power was afraid of Trump and used the power of the state to illegally spy on him.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/25/2020 5:20 Comments || Top||

#4  More proof the progressive-commie-fascist faction of the left is taken over the demoncratic party.

The rest of the moderates will be purged this November.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/25/2020 15:01 Comments || Top||


GOP Lawmaker Forces DOJ Whistleblower To Admit He Sought Job With Democrats During Trump Impeachment
Busted! Can we hope that he will be retiring soon?
[DailyCaller] A Justice Department official turned whistleblower appeared caught off-guard Wednesday when Republican Rep. Doug Collins pressed him in a House Judiciary Committee hearing about his efforts in 2019 to work for House Democrats during the Trump impeachment saga.

John Elias, a chief of staff to the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general in the antitrust division, reluctantly conceded at the hearing that he sought a position on the Democratic side of the House Judiciary Committee.

Elias was one of three witnesses who accused Attorney General William Barr of abuse of his authority at the Judiciary hearing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Deep State or Uni-Party is a party unto itself. Makes Swamp-draining difficult work.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/25/2020 10:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Seems like lots of people in the administration work for the dems.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/25/2020 13:57 Comments || Top||


De Blasio plans to install Black Lives Matter mural in front of Trump Tower
Can't get no pettier.
[NYPOST] Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
is planning to install a massive Black Lives Matter mural right outside Trump Tower in Manhattan, The Post has learned.Plans for the mural — which will be painted in yellow block letters along Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th streets — come as the city grapples with troubling surges in gun violence and illegal firework activity.

"Obviously he is doing it to antagonize the president," a source said. "This is what he is concerned about while the city burns. What an amateur politician."

The source said the mayor’s office reached out to the Department of Transportation about the feasibility of the mural — but it was mentioned that de Blasio wanted it done.
Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Time to put White Lives Matter in front of EVERYWHERE he goes.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/25/2020 2:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Where? The middle of the street? On the wall of a building he doesn't own? I suppose the last one makes sense, he is a thieving Democrat.
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick || 06/25/2020 7:34 Comments || Top||

#3  One builds the other graffiti paints.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/25/2020 8:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Wilhelm is just so f'ed up he figures he will just so whatever zany thing comes to his mind. Besides, he'll be re-elected with relative ease.
Posted by: Clem || 06/25/2020 8:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Trump Tower will have a sale on paint filled balloons.
Posted by: Ebberens Glimp4613 || 06/25/2020 8:33 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 - he's termed out, IIRC
Posted by: Frank G || 06/25/2020 9:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Distract, distract, distract.
De Blasio, it won't work and looks pathetic.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/25/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Would De Blasio allow a BLM mural in front of his house? NYC would do well to elect a real mayor who has the best interests of NYC in mind.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/25/2020 10:37 Comments || Top||

#9  They are asking for Federal Emergency Funds because of the CoVid, right? And he can afford this, right? Tell him to go pound sand.
Posted by: magpie || 06/25/2020 10:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Re #6: Frank, I believe that Bloomberg was "termed out" as well, but somehow evaded changed the law to give him another term.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/25/2020 10:58 Comments || Top||

#11  You're right, but I think they changed it back to two terms. DeBlasio doesn't have the support
Posted by: Frank G || 06/25/2020 11:13 Comments || Top||

#12  I heard the posit he is pushing for his wife to run.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/25/2020 11:48 Comments || Top||


Andrew Cuomo defends destruction of U.S. monuments: 'It's a healthy expression'
[New York Post] Not statues of him, are they?
Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He will defend the destruction of monuments as a "healthy expression" only until the mob comes for him or his house.

It is not healthy expression; it is the reaction of an out-of-control mob. It is dangerous. Already people have been beaten and killed.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/25/2020 10:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Whenever a leftist says "Tear it all down," what they really mean is "Tear down all the parts I don't like..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/25/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Healthy for who? Roll clip of rioter hit in head by civil war statute.
Posted by: Airandee || 06/25/2020 11:50 Comments || Top||

#4  I think the radical left want to tear it ALL down. To them The Year of Living Dangerously is the goal. Idiots like Cuomo don't realize what they've unleashed.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/25/2020 12:04 Comments || Top||

#5  #4 I think the radical left want to tear it ALL down.

Yup, regardless of whether it is by design, ignorance or stupidity. We've a lot of pissed-off angry left-wing mobs. They are lucky to live in the U.S.A. Somewhere else in a statist society or dictatorship they would be "removed."
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/25/2020 14:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Just wait until the mob thinks it is a healthy expression to drag Cuomo out of his house and hang him in the street.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/25/2020 15:02 Comments || Top||


Congressional Black Caucus chair Karen Bass being vetted to be Biden running mate
[CBSNEWS] Congresswoman Karen Bass, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, is undergoing vetting as a candidate to be Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...I had the great honor of being arrested with our UN Ambassador on the streets of Soweto, trying to get to see him on Robbens Island...
's running mate, CBS News has learned according to sources familiar with the process.

The five-term congresswoman represents Los Angeles and endorsed Biden for president in mid-March.

It is not immediately clear where Bass stands in the vetting process but her name has been floated for consideration by powerful Democrats like House Majority Whip James Clyburn. "Karen Bass would be a big plus...she is a great person in my mind, I work with her every day," Clyburn told CNN in June when asked about Biden's vetting process.
Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "He likes the smell of her hair..."
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/25/2020 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  They must be pretty desperate to keep blacks on the dem plantation.

If Trump gets the economy going again despite the medical malpractice from medical "modellers" then it's over for the party, not just Biden.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/25/2020 2:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Who? "Bass and Biden?" My money says a losing ticket. IMO, there is nothing that can be done to make any Biden ticket look attractive. I think the Dems know this as well.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/25/2020 10:27 Comments || Top||


Melania Trump slams Food Network host John Henson for tweeting he 'hopes Barron got to spend Father's Day with whoever his dad is'
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Stand-up comedian John Henson tweeted on Sunday, Father's Day: 'I hope Barron gets to spend today with whoever his dad is'

  • Melania Trump responded in a statement on Tuesday saying that the family continues to see 'inappropriate and insensitive' comments about the teenager

  • Speaking via her spokesperson, the First Lady said all minors in the White House should be allowed to grow up with no judgment or hate from strangers'

  • Henson - who appears on ABC's 'Wipeout,' E!'s 'Talk Soup' and the Food Network's 'Halloween Baking Championship' - has deleted the tweet
Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This First Lady of the United States (Melanja Knavs Trump) has the highest levels of testosterone than any other in my opinion. She was already self sufficient starting from zero when in Yugoslavia. Donald inherited millions and built on it in the US.

Melania and family survived socialism before she arrived in this democratic country.

Just as Trump was winning the election she was busy winning a devastating multi million dollar defamation lawsuit against another party for herself.

I truly believe the reason this marriage worked was not because Donald was a great husband, but because after Donald married her he realized sometime during their marriage that he would be shredded by this woman if he was NOT a Great Husband.

She is not apologetic what so ever about their status in society. Barron William Trump; the "William" part of his name was picked by Donald, Melania picked the "Barron" part of his name.

His strong woman is teaching him the necessary art of war, a man of class and when he comes of age and she steps back he will know the art of the survivor and the art of the deal.

Posted by: Crins Throlusing3119 || 06/25/2020 2:49 Comments || Top||

#2  So, what you are saying, is the Melania is engaged in a long, aka classical, tradition of Western Civ, the power behind the throne.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/25/2020 6:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Exactly Procopius2k. When the small force of defenders finally fell at the Alamo, the woman who survived met with Santa Anna. He was so impressed with this strong woman he offered her special treatment and special priviledges.

In many third world countries there are priviledged classes, and the women in those families demand the men keep that status secure. That is the closest they can be to the quality of life of Western Civilization first world countries.
Posted by: Crins Throlusing3119 || 06/25/2020 8:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Skunkboy was funny back on the day when he hosted talk soup. Sorry to hear he's such a $hit when he doesn't have writers putting words in his mouth.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/25/2020 10:07 Comments || Top||

#5  I don't know this Henson character, or lack of.

I don't understand how Food Network's seasonal special catches the credentials over two other networks' weekly broadcasts. Is DM a Mouse Inc. product?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/25/2020 11:32 Comments || Top||



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